ATI Linux Drivers NEW 2.9.06 with XFree 4.3 support

schoett · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 63

I had to patch agpgart_be.c to recognize my SiS host bridge with PCI ID 0x0648. I can now run my ATI 9700 with Option "no_dri" "no" for the first time. But I now have the same problem as Mov:

Mov · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 4

Ex-Cyber · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 26

I'm still having cappy's problem: the cursor updating is hosed, and happily corrupts the display. I just recently upgraded to xfree 4.3.0-r2, and was previously running ati-drivers 2.5.1-r1 without problems. DRI seems to work fine. Setting the "no_accel" option to "yes" in XF86Config makes the problem go away, but also makes X unusably slow, so I'm sitting it out with the "ati" driver at the moment, which seems to be going well as long as I disable DRI (otherwise starting X gives me a nice reboot). Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Mainboard: Soyo SY-K7VX (Dragon Plus)
Chipset: VIA KT266A
Video Card: ATI Radeon 8500 64MB Retail

Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

Yeah, my cursors are doing really wierd things. Could this be a bad combination of xfree-4.3's semi-transparent cursor support and the drivers?

Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

editing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/index.theme and setting Inherits=defauls ixed the problem for me, although I don't get the cool transparent cursors anymore.

Ex-Cyber · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 26

Yeah, I just switched to core fonts and things seem to be running pretty smoothly (except for a lockup with tuxracer, but only tuxracer locked up, X recovered after it was killed).

edit: Had an issue while running xmame also... no hard lock of the system but I lost all video (including textmode VTs; switching worked fine, the monitor sounded like it was doing the mode change, but it was just a black screen) and had to kill X to get things going again...

taskara · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject:

This is the first time I've tried to get an ati card working - normally I use nvidia cards and I have hit a snag!

I am using xfree 4.3.0-r2 and xfree-drm and latest ati drivers 2.9.6.

Hardware is Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with ATI 9000 video chipset.

I have the ati driver working, and glxgears results in about 2000fps.

HOWEVER, the annoying problem is that there are tears and artifacts across the screen, especially when I drag a window.

any thoughts? cheers!
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Cappy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 98

That's why they are hard masked.....many issues. But first and foremost, you should'nt be using Xfree drm AND the ati drivers together....either one or the other. Both of them provide their own individual 3D acceleration.

Cap

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taskara · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 12:47 pm Post subject:

ok.. thanks!

so which one should I use then for the best acceleration?

also.. I have downgraded to xfree 4.2 and used the older drivers. X comes up, but it's like half a screen! something's weird.

thoughts ?

thanks heaps..
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brian33x51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 118

I acquired one of the original 8500's and have been unmasking the new drivers for a bit.

I've been able to play Urban Terror (quake3 mod) at the same settings I had been using with the gf4 ti 4200 I had before with about a 10-15% hit on fps. However after playing for a while the sound will start stuttering and I'll freeze in the game. It'll recover after a few (painful) seconds. I haven't had a hard lock yet. I play at 1280x1024 with max quality settings. I could only play at 1024x768 with medium quality settings with the drm module.

With Unreal Tourney 2003 I can run 1280x1024 and 800x600 without any problems (except it's damn slow, funny, seems a tad smoother than with the gf4 though). However when I change it over to 1024x768 I can't even see the screen, it looks like massive "tearing". Aside from this problem I haven't seen any stutters or other problems yet at the other resolutions, but then again I dont' have the patience to run UT2003 for more than 10 mins or so. I doubt I'll be able to play this game until my next major system upgrade.

Forgot to mention I'm running this on a dual athlon system. with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" turned on.

The system hasn't crashed yet with the ati-drivers although I'm not sure I really trust the state of the system. Not long after the stuttering incident mozilla crashed outon me (is that really unusual though?). The drm modules with 4.3.0 were 100% stable on my system.

Gnufsh · Guru Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 400 Location: Portland, OR

Ex-Cyber · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 26

Wow, I must have been pretty tired by that point... I meant core icons (Inherits=core), but I think core is the default if it can't find whatever you specify for an inherited set. Is there some good documentation on this mechanism somewhere?

Also, I'm seeing some other minor issues... occasional framebuffer corruption after switching back from VTs (no big deal to work around really, a workspace swap cleans 95% of it) and some other misc weirdness that doesn't happen with the XFree ati driver.

taskara · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject:

yeah it was on all windows.. inc xdm, flux and kde..

I have since dropped back to xfree 4.2 ad tried the older drivers.. that cause big problems..

so I've decided to drop the ati drivers all together, and go back to xfree 4.3 and xfree-drm... I think..

ta
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aequitas · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 9:56 am Post subject:

Lately i reinstalled my system with same preferences as before. Now i have the problem that when i am switchen to console and back my whole screen is messed up. When i redraw the screen using a window to sweep it clean its good again. Anyone got a clue what it could be?

Before was gentoo1.4_rc3 now rc3 i used gaming and vanilla sources.
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Fragbeestje · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Belgium

Hi, I'm trying to install the ATI-drivers 2.9.6, but I get this error :

J.M.I.T. · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 7:56 am Post subject:

You have to download the driver-file manually and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles ... emerge won't do that for some reasons that i don't know... so go to http://www.schneider-digital.de , download the driver and put it into the distfiles directory... The installation should work then

Good luck

deurk · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:07 pm Post subject:

deurk · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:40 pm Post subject:

By the way, if you can't emerge ati-drivers even when you have removed the '~' before x86 in the ebuild or used ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", you have to edit the /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask and put a '#' before the line with 'ati-drivers' in it...

Can help

Gonzo · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

<<< about: fglrx - unknown asic class >>>

hi @ all!

i have exact the same error ... and i've tried the whole last week to figure out what the problem is.

so that is what i know:
every ati-graphic-board has it's own so called _ASIC-ID_ saved in the bios (graphic-card).

for example:

Radeon 9500 (PRO) - ASIC-ID: 0x4e44
Radeon 9700 (PRO) - ASIC-ID: 0x4e47

so i checked what kind of asic-id ...

maybe i have to say that i've bought my brand system at a supermarket (do you know ALDI?) :mrgreen:

) ... and they sold that system with a "RADEON 9600TX" ... but that wasn't a _real_ 9600 ... they just put an overclocked _R300_ on the board ...

ähm yes ... asic-id ... so the asic-id on that "RADEON 9600TX" was:

0x4e46

i've decided to re-flash the bios on my graphic-board ... i've tried some 9500 and 9700 bios with absolut NO success (i was really happy to have an old pci-board).

after that ... i've tried to find the part in the original-bios (saved before flashing) where that f*cking

asic-id is configured ... but that was just wast of time!

so ... that's it ... if they don't include my asic-id in their drivers i won't be able to get 3d-support under linux

!

finally ... if someone has an idea for a workaround ... let me know :lol:

greetz
-=G=-

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

new drivers in town

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=49531

GTVincent · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 1:59 am Post subject:

bp1506 · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 30

will ut2003 work on these drivers??

taskara · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 6:52 am Post subject:

new drivers fixed my tearing problem across my dell laptop 8200 ati 9000-M screen

should work with ut2003, don't see why not. it supports opengl ..
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docman · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:00 am Post subject:

hamster2k1 · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 64 Location: Montreal,QC

hello guys,

Anyone having problem running these drivers with a Radeon 9500 Pro ?
It works fine with most apps in 2D, and works fine in 3D games.

But with videos, it works, but the video is cut in half and stretched.
So well It can't really look at it. Even if I switch the video in full screen or try the different mode in gxine doesn't work. I know that with the drivers in the kernel it works normally in 2D for everything including videos.

So anyone ?